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Corresponding author: Johan Liljeblad (johan.liljeblad@slu.se)
Received: 23 Aug 2022 | Published: 23 Aug 2022
© 2022 Johan Liljeblad, Tapani Lahti, Elisabet Sjöro, Tea von Bonsdorff-Salminen, Katriina Bendiksen, Liselott Skarp, Markus Döring
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Liljeblad J, Lahti T, Sjöro E, von Bonsdorff-Salminen T, Bendiksen K, Skarp LS, Döring M (2022) Linking Fennoscandian Species of Two Fungal Genera: A test case for linked open data. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6: e93882. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.6.93882
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In Norway, Sweden and Finland, we all have our own taxonomy initiatives, mapping our biodiversity (
We picked the fungal genera Hygrophorus Fr. and Tricholoma (Fr.) Staude (Basiciomycetes: Agaricales) as test cases for matching species concepts between our countries. We downloaded lists of species from Checklistbank as a starting point, including synonym names and documenting the specific versions. However, the identifiers for these taxa are not independent of name and concept changes here, so this backbone was imported into taxonid.org. A spreadsheet with these taxa was then complemented with taxa from the three respective countries’ taxonomic databases.
In Hygrophorus, there were 35 species with 28 present in Finland, 33 in Norway and 34 in Sweden. The mycologists among us discussed the full list during a virtual workshop and agreed upon how to interpret their respective taxonomies compared to the list at taxonid.org. Next, we copied the identifier for each species in taxonid.org to our respective national databases.
Matching up all species of Hygrophorus took about 3 hours for 3 people, making for a total of 9 hours of effort excluding things such as exporting and preparing checklists for comparison. Adding the identifiers from taxonid.org into the respective national databases was a simple import of a maximum one hour each. We then did the same for the more species-rich genus Tricholoma.
In the process, besides the links, we have established closer personal contact, synced our views on the taxonomy and had a chance to tidy up the nomenclature. When attempting to share more than taxonomic information, we have come to realize how our countries differ in usage of standard terms documenting residency, reproductive status as well as that of establishment means. For now, we will have to make do with a simple absence/presence, but having the actual taxon links is the prerequisite we are now starting to fulfill.
LOD, taxon concepts, linking, national checklists
Johan Liljeblad
TDWG 2022